Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-574) and index.
Contents
The Colonial Era -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- Treaty of Alliance with France (1778) -- Treaty of Peace with Great Britain (1783) -- Treaty with the Cherokee (1785) -- Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Proclamation of Neutrality (1793) -- The Jay Treaty (1794) -- The Pinckney Treaty (1795) -- Washington's Farewell Address (1796) -- The Early Republic -- The Cession of Louisiana (1803) -- The Embargo Act (1807) -- The Non-Intercourse Act (1809) -- Madison's War Message (1812) -- Rush-Bagot Agreement (1818) -- Florida Treaty (1819) -- Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- The Panama Congress (1825) -- Jackson's Message on the Removal of Southern Indians to the Indian Territory (1835) -- Texas Declaration of Independence (1836) -- The Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) -- The Annexation of Texas (1845) -- Polk's Reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine (1845) -- O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny (1845) -- Polk's Message to Congress on War with Mexico (1846) -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) -- Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) -- Ostend Manifesto (1854) -- The Civil War -- Lincoln's Blockade Proclamation (1861) -- The Homestead Act (1862) -- Address to President Lincoln by the Working-Men of Manchester (1862) -- Lincoln's Reply to the Working-Men of Manchester (1863) -- Suspension of the Monroe Doctrine (1862) -- Reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine (1866) -- The Gilded Age -- Purchase of Alaska (1867) -- Grant's Appeal for Annexation of Santo Domingo (1870) -- Resolution of the Alabama Affair (1871) -- Treaty Regulating Chinese Immigration (1880).